| Gilgamesh said: If your offended I'm sorry, it's just the way I grew up grown men watching a little girls show is not really acceptable. My god I can't imagine my dad doing this in a million years. The reason it creeps me out so much is probably from the internet molding my mind of seeing to many weird asain people being obsessed with stuff like this, some even going as far as marrying a video game character, or having sex with some anime character on a pillow Dafuq?? I'm not saying you guys are all similar to that but it just seems odd for a grown man liking something like that. Like I said I grew up where men are suppose to me manly and not watch stuff like that, instead go outside chop down some trees and smoke a cigar lol But ya it's just the way I grew up, if you can't accept my opion of what I think about grown men watching ponies then don't judge me, you guys are kind of the minority, most people would agree with me so it's not like I'm waaaay out of line. Anyway going way off topic. |
Don't worry about it; I'm not offended. I wanted to mention this because when you say that you're creeped out by bronies, you're implying that something is wrong with them when in reality, bronies aren't any different from anyone else.
I understand where you're coming from. I had the same reaction when I first found out about bronies too. You can ask hatmoza about this as well; he was very vocal in his dislike of the show at first. So I understand why you would react the way you do. In fact, I would say that many bronies do. In all honesty, if you had told me a year ago that I would like a show called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, I would have laughed at you and called you crazy.
What I'm trying to point out is that this reaction is not based in any sort of logic. It's something that you do just because that's how everyone else does it, but there's no real logical foundation for thinking that way.
I'm not judging you. As I said, I understand your reaction and I'm not trying to say that you have to love the show or the fandom. And I can accept that it still bothers you (although, please don't use "most people would agree with me" as justification for anything). But by saying that we creep you out as a sort of casual throwaway line and without justification, you are perpetuating the idea that there is something wrong with being a brony and until you can provide factual evidence of that, there is no reason to think that we are. Indeed, the only study that I know of shows that bronies are not different than anyone else, except they like the show.
I'm not so sure that this is completely off topic. A large reason why sites such as this are so male dominated is because whenever a female shows up and declares themselves as female, you have a split in the community. Half the people call her a liar/troll (lulz girls don't exist on the internet), while the other half stumble over each other to try and become friends with her because she's a girl. If everyone was treated the same, regardless of gender (or interests), then perhaps that would show that a girl could come to the site and feel free to participate in discussions without worries of being insulted or stalked.
That is actually something that isn't limited to just this site, or just an issue of men and women. You should want to treat everyone the same and be mature in your posts, as that will hopefully attract likeminded people. This will create better discussion and a better community. It shouldn't matter who is in that community, and having someone there just for the sake of having X group is pointless.
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